Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Cleaning DE pool filter
I haven't had experience cleaning a DE pool filter before, so when our pool filter needed a thorough cleaning rather than just a back flush Joyce and I got out the camera in case we needed pictures to figure out how to put it back together. Turns out it wasn't too tough. The first surprise was the shape of the elements, the second was the amount of gunk on them.

Once we extracted the filter elements and removed the bolt to take them apart we lined them up against the fence and cleaned them off. Yuck!

Putting them back together involved some ingenuity. First, we had to superglue a portion of one of the filters back together, then figure out that it is easier to assemble the elements with the assembly turned upside down.

With the filter cleaned up and reassembled back into the filter cover it went. We added the DE powder to the skimmer baskets after letting the pump get started and bleeding the air out of the filter.

The whole job took about two hours, but now that we know what we are doing I think we could do it in an hour or less.
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Once we extracted the filter elements and removed the bolt to take them apart we lined them up against the fence and cleaned them off. Yuck!

Putting them back together involved some ingenuity. First, we had to superglue a portion of one of the filters back together, then figure out that it is easier to assemble the elements with the assembly turned upside down.

With the filter cleaned up and reassembled back into the filter cover it went. We added the DE powder to the skimmer baskets after letting the pump get started and bleeding the air out of the filter.

The whole job took about two hours, but now that we know what we are doing I think we could do it in an hour or less.
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